Geometry Quotes

In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

Music is geometry in time.

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.

Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

The circle is the fundamental geometry of open human communication.

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

Gravity is a response to geometry.

Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves

I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I know a lot of people don't like geometry, but for me it's fun.

If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope.

I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.

..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?

A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.